“Walk across the fucking street. Walk two blocks past fucking Broad Street and you can’t walk a single block without a bum asking you for crack money or a dude begging to suck your dick for crack money,” he says in the video. Lord goes on to say, “If you go to Temple, you’re going to get robbed…Everyone I know there has been robbed at gun point, beat up and robbed, had their house broken into, armed robbery.”

Then, to close his video, scathingly declared that, “If you go four years at Temple, at graduation, they need to give you a little ribbon and the ribbon will say “I did not get ganged at Temple.”

Temple students wasted no time in correcting Lord on his inaccurate, uninformed, and prejudiced description of the university.

Twitter user @davincdeez provided her own thread, defending her experience at Temple University, providing accounts as a student living off campus, which according to Lorde is a life-endangering decision.

Just say you’re from some farmland in Alabama & have never experienced city life. Not every homeless person is a crackhead. Not every North Philly resident is gang affiliated. If all of your friends are “getting robbed at gun point” then all of your friends are stupid. Like you. https://t.co/Rlo3dvyFq1

I lived off campus and had a neighbor who would wait outside on his porch until my roommates and I got home. It would be 9pm on a Wednesday night and he’d be outside waiting for the last one to get in. That’s love.

Maybe if you treated your neighbors like neighbors and not “locals” they wouldn’t look at you like targets. You feel entitled to their neighborhood? Well then they feel entitled to reparations. Run ya pockets.

Hey so you're 1000% wrong about Temple.. you don't even go here. We do get alerts when a sexual assault occurs. And the community members and more respectful than the students. Completely wrong about everything you said. Most people live off campus.

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